Rager Red is a medium-bodied red ale, a malty brew with hints of caramel and toasted bread. It’s smooth and balanced, with a subtle earthy and spicy ﬂavor and aroma from the hops and peated smoked malt. It’s the perfect beer to transition from the heavy dark beers of winter to the lighter more quaffable beers of summer.

Gotta love how only the O'Fallon seasonals seem to show up around here, while the regulars are nowhere to be found... Anyway, this stuff pours a clear midnight copper topped by a finger of dirty white foam. The nose is nearly non-existent, with but a faint whiff of toffee off in the distance coming through. The taste holds notes of caramel tinged with light hickory smoke, light earthy and spicy greens, and a hint of rye toast. Normally I'm all for smoky-ish brews, but this time it's just awkward and ill-fitting. A vague eddy of hard water runs through it all. The body is a light medium, with a light moderate carbonation and a slightly slick feel. Overall, this ends up being a confused example of an Irish red, one that seems to wanna think outside the box, but one that just ends up coming across as a douchy punk wannabe.

Poured this Irish Red Ale from a 12 oz bottle into a snifter.Poured clear red-amber with a small tan head that soon reduces to a thin partial coat and left only small rings of lacing. Aroma: looks fine but has a pronounced smell of a Band-Aid; yes, plastic/rubber band-aid dominates, with some malts in the background. T: Unfortunately, the flavor is, at best, no better; the band-aid impression is even clear in tasting. O: Avoid!

Pours a clear, brown color. 1/4 inch head of an off-white color. Slight retention and poor lacing. Smells of adjunct, pale malt, hops, sugar, hint of sweet malt, hint of alcohol, hint of smoke, and a hint of caramel malt. Fits the style of an Irish Red Ale. Mouth feel is sharp and crisp, with an average carbonation level. Tastes of smoke, sweet malt, hint of pale malt, slight adjunct, and slight hops. The smoke is quite unusual, but helps mask the adjunct flavors and aromas. I wish the carbonation level was lower, as it cuts the smoke flavors and seems to enhance the adjunct flavors.

A - Pours a pretty nice deep amber color with just a 1/4 inch of head.S - Doesn't smell very sweet has a sort of herbal hop smell and dry yeast.T - Wow this is pretty bad. I knew it was bad when I had to choke the rest down but very green bean vegital forward with a touch of herbal bite. Very little malt sweetness, biscuit flavors, or hops. What the hell am I drinking?M - Light to medium, ABV should be sessionable but its such an odd flavor.Overall it's kind of like a skunked amber lager rather than an Irish Red. Man I was kind of psyched for this since most of there beer rock but this begs the question of why this is brewed and bottled every year...

Flavor echoes the aroma, with a band-aid phenolic note dominating initially. Lightly roasted and deeply toasted sweet specialty malt forms the backbone when the phenols subside. There's a fruity character attributable to the malt, which carries into the fairly bitter, dry finish.

Body is moderate and slick, with moderate to low carbonation and a slightly astringent finish.

Would be much better without the phenols. Can't get past the band-aid. The malt character is fairly complex, but the finish is more bitter than anticipated.

The beer is a clear deep copper color, as a foamy off-white head calms to film. Light lines of lacing cover the glass. The aroma is slightly spicy and malty, with cinnamon faintly coming through, somewhat metallic. Taste is somewhat sweet from malts at first then a general smoked-meats flavor comes in. Roasted malts and grains fill out the body, with a metallic tang finish. Overall, not the purest red ale I've had, but it's got character.

S- very mild aroma of caramel and brown sugar. Herbal hops in the background. Beery.

T- weird effed up smoky bandaid taste. Similar to smoked almonds but in a plastic rubbery sort of way. Smoked almonds are tasty. This is not. The other reviewers are correct. Not cool at all. Aside from that, woodsy and dry with a hint of salt.

MF- medium bodied and medium bubbled. Nothing special.

D- idk what's up w the phenols or whatever is causing this taste, but down the drain it goes.

Poured this Irish Red Ale from a 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. Poured a clear red color, produced an average tannish head, average retention, average lacing left on the glass. The aroma consisted of sweet caramel malt, and floral hops. Medium bodied, this ale contained a foundation of malted grain, some toasted malt, caramel and strong taste that can only be described as "plastic". It is not pleasant. Plastic/Somewhat Bitter/Somewhat Dry- I read the previous review and it was compared to the taste of a Band-Aid- ...I just went to my medicine cabinet and licked a band aid - Yes that is it- tastes like a band aid ...- ;) - I can't see this brew lasting very long.